M6:3199 — در میان شمس و این روزن رهی / هست روزنها نشد زو آگهی

Translation: Between the eternal Sun and this window-opening, a path exists; But other window-openings remained unaware of it. Meaning: This verse speaks of a hidden, direct connection between God (the eternal Sun) and an illuminated individual (this window-opening), a path that remains imperceptible to ordinary understanding.

Mowlana, with his peerless insight, uses this verse to unveil the secret of a union (wisāl) hidden from common sight. The "Sun" (shams) is, without doubt, God, the primordial source of all light and being. "This window-opening" (īn rozan) refers to the Perfect Human, whose being has been filled with the divine light, becoming a mirror reflecting God's attributes; the 'vali' (saint or spiritual master) who holds a high station in our mystical tradition. This window-opening receives light from the Sun, but the light it emanates is no longer merely borrowed; it is "luminous from itself" (darkhshān az khod ast), as Mowlana says elsewhere, "not a trust from the Sun or the Farqad star."

The crucial point of the verse lies in "a path exists" (rahī hast); a path between the Sun and this window-opening that is "unconventional" (ghayr-i maʿhūd) and "unknown" (ghayr-i shenākhteh-shodeh). This is the "connection without modality or analogy" (ittiṣālī bī-takayouf, bī-qiyās) that Mowlana describes elsewhere—a non-temporal, non-spatial, non-mechanical connection that transcends material causality and natural mechanisms. Our minds, habituated to conventional structures, are incapable of grasping such a path. This is why Mowlana states, "other window-openings remained unaware of it." These other window-openings, ordinary people whose inner vision has not been cleansed of the dust of conventional perceptions, are oblivious to this path. To perceive it, one must "wash one's eyes and see differently" (cheshmhā rā bāyad shost, joor-i dīgar bāyad dīd); inner purification and spiritual refinement are necessary to lift the veil from the soul's eye.

This is the doctrine of 'qurb' (proximity), which brings the mystic so close to the Truth that they become "filled with God" (por az Khodā). Mowlana likens this state to a "piece of iron" placed in a fiery furnace, remaining there until it takes on all the qualities of fire: it burns, it illuminates, and it declares, "I am fire, I am fire." At this stage, the words of the 'vali' become God's words, and obedience to them is obedience to God. Hence, Mowlana uses astonishing expressions such as "his praise and glorification are God's praise" (midhat-o tasbīḥ-i oo tasbīḥ-i Ḥaqq), and even beyond that, "fruit grows from the very basket" (mīveh mī-royad ze ʿayn-i īn ṭabaq). This fruit (the words and actions of the 'vali') does not merely appear in the basket from an outside source; it sprouts from the basket itself. In other words, the speech of the Perfect Human becomes the very essence of God's speech, a direct product of their being, not merely a medium for its transmission. In this station, the 'vali's' independent existence is annihilated (fanā) in the divine existence, for "how can a clod of earth remain dry in such a stream?" (dar chonīn joo khoshk kay mānad kolūkh).

To elucidate this immediate unity and the general unawareness of it, Mowlana presents the parable of a man named Omar in the city of Kashan. In a city where everyone is Shia and all shops effectively operate as one entity, if someone named "Omar" enters, no one will sell him bread. He fails to understand that "all shops are one" (hameh dukkān yakī-st) in their collective stance. This parable precisely explicates "other window-openings remained unaware of it" (rozanhā nashod zo āgahī). Ordinary people see the window-openings as separate, but the 'vali' connected to the Sun knows that all existence ultimately returns to a single Truth, and they themselves are immersed in it. This verse, in essence, articulates the core of Mowlana's "metaphysics of union," bidding farewell to any "metaphysics of separation" that perceives humanity as distinct from the Divine Presence.

Key takeaways

• A hidden, unconventional path exists between the Perfect Human (vali) and God, transcending ordinary perception.
• "This window-opening" symbolizes a human being filled with God's essential light due to existential proximity, becoming a mirror of the Truth.
• The "unawareness of other window-openings" stems from minds trapped by natural mechanisms and a lack of spiritual purification.
• This verse encapsulates Mowlana's "metaphysics of union," where distinctions between servant and God dissolve in the state of annihilation (fanā).
• At this stage, the words and actions of the vali are not mere transmissions; they are direct emanations of a being filled with divine presence (fruit growing from the very basket).
• To grasp this truth, one must cleanse the heart's eye of conventional dust and adopt a new way of seeing.